Merchantville High School - Record Yearbook (Merchantville, NJ)

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father's profession, the ministry-but this d0esn't occupy all his time. He stays up nights and watches the stars-looking for his Venus. REBA ALTER is a private secretary to J. Pierpont Morgan and carries on amidst an avalanche of modernistic furniture which was selected by GWENDOLYN PRICH- ARD, who is free-lancing in the line of interior decoration in New York City. Father Neptune was rather worried for he saw that FRANK PETTIT, finding himself unsuccessful in logrolling among men, has decided to take to the lower depths and try his stuff on the more watery minds of our finny friends. JANET GERHARD is in Mexico composing a second Peanut Vendor's song so that if a second Douglas Fairbanks should visit her inn, he would choose her for his next picture. DOT C. MYERS and LOUISE ROBERTSON are in Paris together living in the Latin Quarter. Dot is a social leader there, in fact the life of every party, and Louise is designing costumes for Flo Ziegfeldis productions. By the way, the famous afore- mentioned Mr. Ziegfeld has a worthy protegee, none other than FLOSSIE MAC- NIUHOL When Flossie has learned to kick the back of her head, she will become Flo Ziegfeld, Jr. Old Nep says that MASH MCFEELEY and MITZI WOLF are at last separated. Mash is a Parisien maniquin knocking all the American millionaire gentle- men for a row and Mitzi is somebody's stenog with a record for pulling gum. LLOYD AREGOODU, Father Neptune said, is in a Chicago meat packing house. What a butcher !-he invented a way to manufacture hot dogs out of live dogs. VIOLET CHANCE is a buyer of frocks in Saks-Fifth Avenue store. She says they have sold more red dresses this year than ever before for the Danish opera star ALICE ILES was seen on Fifth Avenue last month in a fiery red chiffon tea-gown. U Mr. Neptune remarked that we certainly did have high flying class-aviators, opera stars, artists, etc. but that he was glad to see that one of them had a few sensible ideas. He saw VIRGINIA HYER settled down in California, married to a handsome dark brute and surrounded by five shining young faces. Three are hers and two are the neighbor's children. Neptune saw CARLISLE HAGEMANN in the automobile business, buying un- painted cars and then hand painting them Garnet and Gray to sell to the students of hlerchantville High School. RUDY MCCAULEY is a second Helen Wills with a few added sidelines. She's a tennis star, paints and draws, skis, ice skates, swims, but spends most of her time as aviatrix turning somersaults in the air. KASH MCFEELEY has gone native on us. She's a budding young violinist with long flowing locks and curly eye-lashes. PEG HUMPHREYS has a drop of loyalty in her blood. She's still sticking to her dear old town of Merchantville and is teaching some darling little children in second grade. JINNY STORRIE has followed poetry and stuck tolit. She's putting out just reams of it-some good and some bad. Sheis thinking seriously of going to London. Perhaps in the next fifty years she will be chosen Poet Laureate of England. Father Neptune chuckled once again. Here is a surprise! That quiet little KITTY REINBOLD is teaching dancing in Philadelphia. She and hlyrtle Walkden are partners. Kitty teaches toe-dancing and Miss Walkden teaches acrobats. If you should drop in at their studio, you'd see dust flying. -JI 24 IP:-

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.v- iii ' if CLASS DIQDDHECY 'fzz' w i 4: .-5 1 E LD King Neptune came up from the sea on Class Night and told us what the little fishes whispered in his ear, about our future. CHARLES BOOGHER, he sees in the Senate of the United States govern- ment with the reputation of being the most long winded filibusterer. He and TOM NEKERVIS are still sticking together. VVhat a friendship! But it works this way. Tommy goes to Washington in his airplane-yes, he's a licensed pilot-and takes Charles off for the week-end to go hunting. LEONARD DUFFY is in the far north working for the Canadian Mounted Police. VVe don't know why he went there. He had nothing to hide except that he couldn't get his woman. We hope he'll be more successful in getting his man. ELEANOR BROWN wouldn't look at him. She went back home to Alabama and her Thurston. She will be sailing soon to Africa where her husband is booming the diamond market. Old Neptune looked into the sea and chuckled. Can you imaginef, he said, where I see CONNIE ALLEN? She's sit.ting in a dressing room talking to a group of Follies girls-sheys the star of the show-a side-splitting comedian. She's all sur- rounded with flowers sent by her Frenchman who is simply years older than she-but then she's always liked them that way. And while we're in that line let's peep into Hollywood. BARBARA CARSON is out there on a five-year contract with Paramount. She's making out very well and is somewhere in the class with Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, and Jean Harlow. Little ALBIE BOOTH and MARY HULSE have an apartment together in the great city of New York. It's queer that two such quiet people could get together in such a noisy place. But Albie is writing free verse and an occasional novel, anyone of which might set the world on fire, while Mary is gathering together material to write another thesis in order to get a few more letters after her name. ALBERT GOETZ'S name is in all the papers for he's the manager of the Phillies. His best man is FRED THATCHER, who plays left field. They haven't won any games yet, but they are hopeful. FRANK MULL studied at the Central Air Port and is piloting a mail Zeppelin across the Paciic Ocean. He has just received this position for he has been helping Colonel Lindberg in a flight to the Sahara Desert. Father Neptune foretold two futures for LAURENCE JONES-one is after his -31 Q3 Ib..

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JANICE HIRST and MARY MENG have started a red-headed league. Only those who have red hair grown in the halls of dear old Merchantville are eligible. But this doesn't take up all their time. Janice is studying law and Mary owns a Chinese laundry. Father Neptune saw Fannie Davis as the owner of a beauty salon in New York City. She blends face powders, etc., for the individual and her trade name is Fannie the Face Fixer. CARROL TURNER is a millionaire. He rides around in a Ford and smokes 15- cent cigars all because he invented a new trick automobile horn and had it patented before someone else did. BILL YARNALL is an admiral at Annapolis and spends his time teaching the boys how to keep their chins up with their garrison caps on their heads. M '31 ON DECK T ITS Class Night performance on the evening of June 16, 1931, the senior class took its iinal voyage on the good ship Merchantville . The first act revealed all members on board, worried because of a storm and a seemingly difficult landing ahead. They were disappointed that the end of the last trip had to be so difficult, but consoled themselves by reviewing the three previous, very successful trips that they had enjoyed together. In the second act the storm seemed to grow worse. For a time, however, the passengers forgot their worries in the entertainment provided by the talent on board. Singing and dancing, all under the direction of Charles Boogher as Master of Cere- monies, proved diverting until the seriousness of the storm could no longer be over- looked. Captain Duffy calmly reassured the passengers, but they insisted upon hear- ing the will preparatory to placing it in a bottle which was to be thrown into the ocean. As they were signing the will, Neptune appeared from the dept.hs of the sea. He told them that their fate was in his hands and that he had decreed that none of them should perish. To prove this he foretold their future by giving them a glimpse of each individual as the group passed in procession by the port-hole of life . In the fourth act the ship was attacked by the Junior pirates who wished to take possession. First Mate Pettit informed them that in due time the important charge of the good ship Merchantville would be theirs, and admonished them to use their heritage wisely. On leaving, the pirates forgot their treasure chest which the seniors found to contain packages marked with their names. As these gifts were dis- tributed, the S. S. Merchantvillen sailed into a calm and peaceful harbor. Thankful for their unexpected safety, the group joined in singing The Class of '31 . The committee responsible for originating and developing this program was as follows: Miss Anne Haldeman and Miss Amy Stewart, advisers: Charles Boogher, chairman: hlarjorie Booth, Ruth McCauley, Louise Robertson, Thomas Nekervis, --v1 25 Ir--